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DEFINITE proposals for a radical modification of the Australian National Research Council have been drafted for submission to its members and to those of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Though constituted under the aegis of the latter body in 1921, the Research Council has hitherto functioned quite independently of it. It is now proposed that the A.N.Z.A.A.S. should institute a limited fellowship, the original fellows to be past and present presidents, general treasurers and general secretaries of itself and of the A.N.R.C., together with presidents and past presidents of sections and not more than fifty others selected for special qualifications, giving a total of between 120 and 150. Subsequent elections would be made annually by the fellows, with adequate safeguards to ensure the maintenance of a high standard. The fellows of the Association resident in Australia would then be appointed a Committee with the title “Australian National Research Council” and with duties similar to those of the body at present carrying that name. The new Council would take over the assets of the existing one, and the A.N.Z.A.A.S. would place at its disposal for research and other purposes a sum not exceeding one half of the subscriptions of fellows and annual members.
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Australian National Research Council. Nature 137, 102–103 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137102c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137102c0